IRCC has announced the planned reduction of approximately 3,300 positions at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will affect staff responsible for processing a variety of applications, including: Temporary Resident Visas: Permits for individuals seeking to visit, study, or work in Canada on a temporary basis. Permanent Residency Applications: Processes for individuals applying to become permanent residents under various programs, such as economic immigration, family sponsorship, and refugee resettlement. Citizenship Applications: Procedures for permanent residents applying to obtain Canadian citizenship. Service Canada staff that processes the all-important Labour Market Opinion applications, which allow Canadian employers to hire foreign nationals. These workforce reductions will impact already long and backlogged processing times. While the government will indeed reduce the intake of immigration applications, both temporary and permanent, taking an axe to the processing work force will simply extend the pain and uncertainty applicants face on a daily basis. Cuts to Service Canada’s staff that process LMIAs is also a major blow, since LMIA processing times currently sit at 4 to 5 months. This means an Employer hoping to hire foreign talent through the LMIA route must wait 5 to 6 months for the LMIA opinion, plus however long it takes for the work permit application to be approved (after obtaining the LMIA you still have to apply for a work permit). These massive cuts (think about it: 3000 workers is a huge amount of people) will only further erode Canada’s reputation as a top-tier destination. The severity of these cuts makes no sense. The counter-factual is that IRCC is cutting staff numbers that had greatly swelled during the pandemic years. The latter argument, that this is a return to pre-COVID numbers, would be acceptable IF current processing times across all streams were normal. But since processing times are still very delayed, and since backlogs of files are still rampant, cutting that many positions before the backlogs have been cleared is mind-boggling and shows the Liberal government has completely lost the plot. It’s an outrage, actually. Back to all posts Share this post:
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